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Joyce Carol Oates
Geburtstag: 16. Juni 1938
Joyce Carol Oates ist eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin. Gelegentlich publiziert Oates auch unter den Pseudonymen Rosamond Smith und Lauren Kelly.
Oates' erster Roman erschien im Jahr 1963. Seitdem hat sie mehr als 40 Romane sowie eine Reihe Theaterstücke, Novellen sowie mehrere Sammlungen von Kurzgeschichten, Lyrik, Essays und Biographisches veröffentlicht. In ihrem Werk finden sich sowohl realistisch-sozialkritische Themen als auch Fantastisches . Ihre Jugendbücher wie Unter Verdacht und Sexy handeln zumeist vom Erwachsenwerden und den Schwierigkeiten, eine eigene Identität zu finden und sie gegenüber der Umwelt zu verteidigen. Oates gilt als eine der vielseitigsten und bedeutendsten Autorinnen der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur und wird seit Jahren zu den Anwärtern auf den Nobelpreis für Literatur gerechnet.
Zu den Auszeichnungen, die sie bislang in ihrem Leben erhalten hat, gehört der National Book Award für den Roman them , zwei Mal der O. Henry Award und die National Humanities Medal. Sie war mehrfach für den Pulitzer-Preis nominiert: 1992 für Blackwater , 1994 für What I lived For und 2000 für Blonde .
Zitate Joyce Carol Oates
„I think that art is the commemoration of life in its variety.“
Kontext: I think that art is the commemoration of life in its variety. The novel, for instance, is “historic” in its embodiment in a specific place and time and its suggestion that there is meaning to our actions. Without the stillness, thoughtfulness and depths of art, and without the ceaseless moral rigors of art, we would have no shared culture — no collective memory. As it is, in contemporary societies, where so much concentration is focused on social media, insatiable in its myriad, fleeting interests, the “stillness and thoughtfulness” of a more permanent art feels threatened.
„My theory is that literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our lives.“
Kontext: My theory is that literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our lives. We can’t live without dreaming — as we can’t live without sleep. We are “conscious” beings for only a limited period of time, then we sink back into sleep — the “unconscious.” It is nourishing, in ways we can’t fully understand.
„We all have numerous identities that shift with circumstances.“
Kontext: We all have numerous identities that shift with circumstances. The writing self is likely to be a highly private, conjured sort of being — you would not find it in a grocery store.
„Prose — it might be speculated — is discourse; poetry ellipsis.“
"'Soul at the White Heat': The Romance of Emily Dickinson’s Poetry," (Woman) Writer: Occasions and Opportunities (1988)<!-- E.P. Dutton -->
Kontext: Prose — it might be speculated — is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice of "communication"; the other is private, allusive, teasing, sly, idiosyncratic as the spider’s delicate web, a kind of witchcraft unfathomable to ordinary minds.
„The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.“
— Joyce Carol Oates, buch Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
Quelle: Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
„See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be“
— Joyce Carol Oates, buch After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
Quelle: After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
„Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.“
Variante: Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.
„Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.“
Quelle: The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982
